Toy gun.



J. B. ALEY.

v TOY Gum. APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 5. I916:

Patented July 3,1917;

Jzao5 BA'Zey I INVENTOR.

A TTORNE Yfl illustrated in JACOB B. ALEY, SPOKANE, WASHINGTON.

TOY GUN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented uly 3, 191W.

Application filed September 5, 1916. Serial No. 118,400.

To all whom it may concern: I Be it known that I, JACOB B. ALnY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Spokane, in the county of Spokane and State of Washington, have invented a new and useful Toy Gun, of which the following is a specification.

invention relates to improvements in toy guns in which pellets are ejected from the barrel by an ejector actuated by a spring, and the objects of my invention are to provide mechanism to eject thepellets from the barrel that will work easily and smoothly, with a minimum of energy exerted by the operator for the amount of force expended upon the pellet. 1 I attain these objects by the mechanism the accompanying drawing, in which J v Figure 1 is a plan view of one form of my device; Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through line 22 of Fig. 1; Flg. 3 is a plan view of another form of my device with the stock broken away to show the interior mechanism; and Fig; 4 is a vertifcalllongitudinal section through line 4-4 0 1g. 3.

Similar characters refer-to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawing, 1 is the stock of a gun having a barrel 2 preferably provided with an opening 3 and tube 4 for feeding pellets into the rear end of the barrel 2. The stock provide a housing for the actuating mechanism, consisting of a lever 6 fulcrum'ed between its endson the transverse pin 7, the lower arm of the lever 6' being connected with the spring S'sommmted as to resist its forward movement, and the upper arm of the lever 6 being-pivotally connected with the rear end of'the plunger 9-mounted to reciprocate in a'central longitudinal aperture through the breech of the barrel 2, the orward end of the plunger 9 in its normal position extending through the breech into the barrel, the forward movement of the plunger 9 being limited by the transverse pin 10 against which the lower arm of the lever6 normally rests. The n per arm of the lever 6 is .p backward against the tension of the spring movement of the 1 is chambered at 5 to 8 by a U shaped projection on the crank-shaft 12, which .is

mounted on suitable bearings 13 and is provided with a handle 14. Alternative forms of the spring 8 are shown, a coilspring in Fig. 2 and a flat spring in Fig. 4. Thecoil spring shown in Fig. 2

is preferably attached,

at the rear end to a lever 15 fulcrumed at its end, which is held in position by the tension screw 16'.

The operation of the gun is as'follows: Pellets are inserted preferably in the tube 4 to the number that the tube will contain, the lowest one of which, as at 17, rests on ,the forward end of the plunger 9. The

handle 14 is then revolved forward, which brings the U shaped projection 11 into engagement with the upper arm of the lever 6 which presses it backward against the tension ofthe spring 8 on the lower. arm of the lever 6, thus drawing backward the plunger 9 and allowing the pellet 17 to drop down in front of the forward end of the plunger 9. On continuing the revolution of the handle 14, the upper end of the lever 6 is pressed backward until it is released by the upward U shaped projection '11, and the tension of the spring 8 on'the lower arm of the lever 6 then causes the upper arm to move rapidly forward, forcing the forward end of the plunger 9 against the pellet 17 and ejecting it from'the barrel. This operationcan be repeated rapidly as long as pellets remain in the tube 4.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-e I A toy gun consisting of a barrel and a stock, a plungermounted to reciprocate in a central longitudinal aperture through the breech of the barrel, a lever within the stock fulcrumed between its ends, the upper arm of whichis pivotally connected with the rear end of the plunger, a spring adapted to hold the lower arm of the leverbackward against a stop, and means to pres backward and release the upper arm' of the lever.

JACOB B. 'EY.

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